Matt K. Matsuda

Pacific Worlds (eBook, PDF)

A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Asia, the Pacific Islands and the coasts of the Americas have long been studied separately. This essential single-volume history of the Pacific traces the global interactions and remarkable peoples that have connected these regions with each other and with Europe and the Indian Ocean, for millennia. From ancient canoe navigators, monumental civilisations, pirates and seaborne empires, to the rise of nuclear testing and global warming, Matt Matsuda ranges across the frontiers of colonial history, anthropology and Pacific Rim economics and politics, piecing together a history of the region. The book identifies and draws together the defining threads and extraordinary personal narratives which have contributed to this history, showing how localised contacts and contests have often blossomed into global struggles over colonialism, tourism and the rise of Asian economies. Drawing on Asian, Oceanian, European, American, ancient and modern narratives, the author assembles a fascinating Pacific region from a truly global perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139211000
• Artikelnr.: 38454865

Autorenporträt

Matt Matsuda is Professor of History at Rutgers University where he teaches Modern European and Asia-Pacific comparative histories. His previous publications include Empire of Love: Histories of France and the Pacific (2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: encircling the ocean
1. Civilization without a center
2. Trading rings and tidal empires
3. Straits, sultans and treasure fleets
4. Conquered colonies and Iberian ambitions
5. Island encounters and the Spanish lake
6. Sea changes and spice islands
7. Samurai, priests and potentates
8. Pirates and raiders of the eastern seas
9. Asia, America, and the age of the galleon
10. Navigators of Polynesia and paradise
11. Gods and sky piercers
12. Extremities of the Great Southern Continent
13. The world that Canton made
14. Flags, treaties, and gunboats
15. Migrations, plantations, and the people trade
16. Imperial destinies on foreign shores
17. Traditions of engagement and ethnography
18. War stories from the Pacific theater
19. Prophets and rebels of decolonization
20. Critical mass for the earth and ocean
21. Specters of memory, agents of development
22. Repairing legacies, claiming histories
Afterword: world heritage.